Hi.

I'm trying to install Devuan Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 board, also known as a
Lamobo R1: https://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1

I've previously been using it with Bananian (https://www.bananian.org/ seems
to be pretty broken at present), but since I use Devuan on everything else I
have, I'd like to switch this device over as well.

I'm fetching the files from http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/chimaera
/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/

I download firmware.Lamobo_R1.img.gz and partition.img.gz

I create the SD image with
zcat firmware.Lamobo_R1.img.gz partition.img.gz >chimaera.img

I write it to the SD card with dd if=chimaera.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

I insert it into the Banana, together with a USB keyboard and an HDMI screen,
power it up and I see some boot messages, which are pretty rapidly replaced
with a menu asking me which language I wish to use.

So far, so good :)

The keyboard doesn't work. (It works on any other computer)

I'm using a 3A PSU for the Banana, and for now there is no HDD attached, so
I'm pretty certain that power is not a problem.

The USB port and an attached keyboard work fine under Bananian.


Can anyone offer suggestions on what to try next, to get the installer able to
read the keyboard?

I can mount the partition that's been created on the SD card on the machine I
wrote it with, and it contains:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root     1575 Jul 10 06:50 boot.scr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    75264 Jul 10 06:50 dtbs
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 23648046 Jul 10 06:50 initrd.gz
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  4968960 Jul 10 06:50 vmlinuz

Maybe there's something there I can edit there to get the keyboard working?


Thanks,


Antony.

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